What I May Do With My Naked Body: A Reply to Azar Majedi About the #NudePhotoRevolutionaries Calendar | Greta Christina's Blog"It pisses me off that I’ve spent decades being told by other feminists how to be a good girl. It pisses me off that, because I said, “Hey, here’s a photo of my naked body [...]”… other women are presuming to chide me for being a bad feminist.
Yes, we live in a sexist culture, in which women have no good choices when it comes to our bodies. We live in a sexist culture in which women are valued primarily as sexual objects, and at the same time are shamed for our sexuality. It seems to me that we have two choices as to how to respond to this. We can try to navigate the narrow, essentially impossible shoals of these contradictory expectations, and try to find that perfect, socially acceptable line between slut and prude.
Or we can say,“Fuck it. There is no way I can win — so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want.[...]" And in saying, “I can’t win, so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want to do,” we can create the beginnings of a victory."
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How NOT to gain readers and influence bloggers"I shouldn't have to get assertive. I shouldn't have to constantly build myself up to be able to guard my space and cause unpleasantness. I shouldn't have to be on the defensive. It should be people like this guy who should respect my space and leave me be. So don't tell me to be more assertive. Tell jackasses like him not to be so creepy and awkward."(tags: feminism )

I'm at 130% of the national average (and above average for my age and gender, from checking previous similar graphs). I am aware that this is mostly due to a combination of luck and a skillset which is lucrative at this point historically and geographically. I start to fume with rage when some of my senior colleagues bitch that 'you'll never get rich as an engineer' - such entitled obliviousness.

Re: that first link about the people on disability dying in 2011. Statistically, that doesn't really prove anything because there's nothing to compare it to. Is that a higher number than in previous years? If yes, significantly higher, marginally higher, just a teeny bit higher? It would have been far more helpful if they'd requested data for the past 10 years or so. As it is, the numbers don't really prove anything. Maybe fewer people died in 2011 than in previous years. It's impossible to say.

(note - not trying to defend the changes to the benefit scheme - I'm Canadian so don't have a horse in this race, but from a research point of view, it's rather meaningless without data from previous years)

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